Word: sportsmanship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's squash team won another national championship a sportsmanship award, placed three players on the All-America team, and five on the All-Ivy team. Not bad for a weekend's work...
...Olympic flag as the symbol." When Mika Spiljak, whose official title is "President of the Presidency," declared the Games open, doves raced balloons to the mountaintops. In one translation of the Olympic oath, vowed to for all by Yugoslav Skier Bojan Krizaj, the phrase "in the spirit of true sportsmanship" came out "in the spirit of true sponsorship," but the moment could not be spoiled...
...match was particularly good from a sportsmanship point of view," said Assistant Coach Bill Austin. "The Williams coach said the sportsmanship and court behavior of the Harvard team were the best he's seen all season," added Austin...
...callousness and overreaction to link the tragedy at The Game to betting a couple of bucks on the Raiders-Jets game. But both come from a distortion of what the game is supposed to be, an athletic contest between equals. That ideal is so far lost that speeches about sportsmanship and the spirit of competition are universally scoffed. They are cliches, but only because the message isn't getting through...
...ostensibly non-brutal culture, the need to channel human aggression has always proved somewhat of a problem. The macabre nature of Spain's bullfights revolts us, and even our own ancestral tradition of duelling gives us chills. Instead, we prefer something more in the vein of a game, where sportsmanship and fun--not victory and blood--are the central factors. The all-American solution to what we consider an un-American trait of violence has become football...